Draft for Aloha Friday 07.12.19 False Wiliwili — Part Two I was raised a good Lutheran, so there are two … More
Month: July 2019
False Wiliwili — Part One
Anna is a second semester freshman. I’m entering my final semester as a senior, chomping at the bit, eager to get … More
Chronic Disease
My family went to the doctorOne by one by one by oneFirst my motherThen my fatherNext my sisterI last. The … More
A Terabyte of Memory
Again this morning a tinybread crumb of a voiceI hear inside me hope It is that small me, sure as … More
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 65 (on my Dad’s 100th birthday)
Like my fatherI try not to argue about anything with anyonenot that we always get along with everyone necessarilybut because … More
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 64 (for DS)
last night at the alumni reunionI remembered how Dan and Ithe inside push bar not workinggot locked in the cafeteria … More
Midwest Aloha
Four fresh faced white Wisconsin farm ladsmaybe raised on this morning’s milk and cheese and home churned butterrocket their beat-up … More
emptiness visited him often (for AE)
to be so tangled in the vast ocean of unknowingeach time a journey to the puzzling heart core mystery all … More
Get Off of My Cloud (for CYF)
This was in 1976. I was visiting my cousin in Oakland, on the way to Madison, Wisconsin, where I would be … More
A Killing
I’m sitting at the sink, sharpening my father’s old knives and all of a sudden, out of the corner of … More
hard evidence
a bird sings this morning beautifuldawn wakes me dreamer to day’s bright notesthis warble can rouse drowsed ears to joy … More
something’s there
one knock is Hemingwayknock knock is a jokeknock knock knock, you’ve entered the twilight zone knock knock knock knockis Poe’s … More
